Title :
Load balancing from a Unix shell
Author :
Lyle, J.R. ; Lu, Chin
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Maryland Univ., Baltimore County, Catonsville, MD, USA
Abstract :
A local area network of workstations often has a number of idle workstations that could be used to lower the load of active workstations. Widely used operating systems, such as Unix, often have the capability of remotely executing a program, but no automatic load balancing facilities. The authors report on a low-cost solution to workstation load redistribution by allowing the shell to select an alternate host for command execution
Keywords :
Unix; Unix shell; command execution; load balancing; load redistribution; local area network; operating systems; workstations; Computer bugs; Computer science; Costs; Kernel; Load management; Local area networks; Operating systems; Software tools; Sun; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Local Computer Networks, 1988., Proceedings of the 13th Conference on
Conference_Location :
Minneapolis, MN
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-0891-9
DOI :
10.1109/LCN.1988.10225
